A TWU delegate and rubbish truck driver who drank six beers at a union event but suggested his David Beckham cologne and sanitiser might explain his low-level positive reading for alcohol at work the next morning has failed to overturn his sacking.
After the UFU refused to comply with a FWC order to hand over a trust deed for an income protection scheme, the Federal Court has also ordered the union to produce the document.
The FWC has found that an employer forced a Jewish worker to resign when it failed to resolve a bullying dispute centred on her request to not work on Shabbat, amidst rumours it intended to get "rid of her".
A major construction company has avoided having to compensate a worker despite failing to properly consult with him over his redundancy, after the FWC found on balance that such "deficiencies" ultimately did not make the dismissal unfair.
The Federal Court has rejected embattled HSU No 1 Victorian branch secretary Diana Asmar's bid to stay FWC general manager Murray Furlong's prosecution of her for alleged "cashbacks", after she failed to establish a criminal trial is "on the cards".
A HR manager has been told to go back to the drawing board in establishing a general protections case against an online trading company and its billionaire founder, who she accuses of having repeatedly directed her to manage employees in ways that would breach workplace laws.
A charity's HR manager engaged in "a blatant exercise in deception" to orchestrate the sacking of a senior manager wrongly accused of serious misconduct, a court has found.
In rare flexibility orders won by an ANMF organiser who moved 500km from the office after experiencing domestic violence, the FWC has temporarily blocked the union from requiring her to work more than three nights per fortnight away from home and directed it to count travel time as work time between certain hours for the first half of the school year.
A tribunal has ordered the reinstatement of a council worker found to have had a "brain snap" when he referred to his manager in a text as a "rude c--t" he felt like punching.
A young worker who is accusing her boss of leaving her no choice but to resign when he physically assaulted her has won extra time to pursue a late unfair dismissal claim, with the FWC accepting that mental health ramifications contributed to the delay.
